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Build a Team that Ships (2012)
I started my first company 15 years go, and I still can’t manage. I suspect that very few people can. With AngelList, we want a team of self-managing people who ship code. Here’s what we do: Keep the team small. All doers, no talkers. Absolutely no middle managers. All BD via APIs. More
A New Search Engine
Cliqz Journey
NYC Pension Earns $40M Over 10 Years, Pays Fund Managers $2B
“We asked a simple question: Are we getting value for the fees we’re paying to Wall Street?” Mr. Stringer said. “The answer, based on this 10-year analysis, is no.” The party is over. At great political risk to his own ambitions (given the local campaign-funding base), New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer took a…
Steve Jobs "never had any designs. He has not designed a single project"
Back when I reviewed Peter Siebel’s fascinating book of programmer interviews, Coders at Work, Erik Anderson suggested in a comment that I might also enjoy its precursor Programmers at Work […
Build Personal Moats
My favorite career advice
Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals
> Patience. Frugality. Sacrifice. When you boil it down, what do those three things have in common? Those are choices. Money is not peace of mind. Money’s not happiness. Money is, at its essence, that measure of a man’s choices. This is part of the opening monologue of the
Chrome introduces Web App install banners
Use the beforeinstallprompt event to provide a custom, seamless, in-app install experience for your users.
The Business of Fake Hollywood Money
Making fake cash is a risky line of work -- even if it's as a certified Hollywood prop master.
Against LLM Maximalism
LLMs are not a direct solution to most of the NLP use-cases companies have been working on. They are extremely useful, but if you want to deliver reliable software you can improve over time, you can't just write a prompt and call it a day. Once you're past prototyping and want to deliver the best system you can…
Oracle spreading FUD about CentOS
Temukan informasi lengkap tentang material bangunan di Bashton. Panduan, tips, dan rekomendasi terbaik untuk kebutuhan konstruksi Anda.
Introducing LFM3: Every Modality for Specialized Intelligence
LFM3 is Liquid AI’s new open-weight model family: 2B-class text, vision, audio, omni, and decision models built to fine-tune and run fast on any device.
Sydney’s solar-powered e-paper traffic signs report zero failures since 2013
Running on Visionect technology, Sydney's electronic paper traffic signs report an impressive zero failure rate since first installed in 2013.
Employee #1: Reddit
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Predicting the Future of Distributed Systems
There are significant changes happening in distributed systems.
Why Founders Fail: The Product CEO Paradox (2013)
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
AWS Data Exchange
We live in a data-intensive, data-driven world! Organizations of all types collect, store, process, analyze data and use it to inform and improve their decision-making processes. The AWS Cloud is well-suited to all of these activities; it offers vast amounts of storage, access to any conceivable amount of compute…
Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts
Mozilla is a trusted organization, founded on a mission to promote openness, innovation and opportunity online. We move the Web forward as a platform for d
Mozilla Announces Deal to Bring Firefox Reality to HTC VIVE Devices
Last year, Mozilla set out to build a best-in-class browser that was made specifically for immersive browsing. The result was Firefox Reality, a browser de
Dead Games
You know when people spend 2 years making games and when they release, they don't sell anything, so they stop selling it...
The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz
Why media whisperer Margit Wennmachers is going direct.